City of London Corporation: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Local authority·Greater London·London
Find a Tender organisation id117793
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
81 awarded tenders, 106 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
85 Health and social work services9 procedures · 25%71 Architectural, construction, engineering8 procedures · 22%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting7 procedures · 19%45 Construction work6 procedures · 17%80 Education and training services5 procedures · 14%48 Software package and information systems3 procedures · 8%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 6%73 Research and development services2 procedures · 6%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 36 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 97% (35 notices)
- Framework 3% (1 notices)
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
- Open 58% (21 notices)
- Route not published 25% (9 notices)
- Limited / restricted 8% (3 notices)
- Selective 8% (3 notices)
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 36 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | 3 | 3.7% | 1 | 3 | 11 Mar 2025 |
| Social Pantry Limited | 3 | 3.7% | 0 | 3 | 12 Sept 2024 |
| Iss Mediclean Limited | 2 | 2.5% | 1 | 7 | 15 Oct 2024 |
| Brinson Staniland Partnership Ltd | 2 | 2.5% | 1 | 2 | 23 Jun 2025 |
| Made Architects Ltd | 2 | 2.5% | 1 | 2 | 23 Jun 2025 |
| Plowman Craven Ltd | 2 | 2.5% | 1 | 2 | 8 Jan 2025 |
| Wates Property Services Ltd | 2 | 2.5% | 0 | 4 | 17 Oct 2023 |
| PHOENIX HOUSE | 2 | 2.5% | 0 | 2 | 24 Apr 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 10% of 81 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 106 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Barbican Renewal Programme Infrastructure Works | Tilbury Douglas Engineering | — | — | £22,482,000 † |
| Guildhall - Chiller Replacement | Briggs & Forrester Special Projects Ltd | — | 1.9 yrs | £4,521,944 † ≈ £2.4m/yr |
| Service Integration Partner for ERP | HCL Technologies UK Limited | — | — | £4,200,000 † |
| Pan London Homeless Substance Misuse Programme – Combined In Patient Detoxification Unit f | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £3,423,951 † |
| The Provision of a Rough Sleeping Outreach Service | Thames Reach Charity | — | — | £2,330,992 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 172 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| GSMD Cyclical Works 2025 - 2030 Professional ServicesArchitectural and related services | Awarded / complete | 23 Jun 2025 | — |
| Pan London Homeless Substance Misuse Programme – Combined In Patient Detoxification Unit for LondonHospital and related services | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2025 | — |
| UK public contract noticeArchitectural and building-surveying services | Open | 24 Feb 2025 | — |
| Digital Skills Qualifications at Levels 2 and 3Adult and other education services | Open | 21 Feb 2025 | — |
| UK public contract noticeConstruction work | Open | 19 Feb 2025 | — |
| Health & Social Care Qualifications at Levels 2 and 3Adult and other education services | Open | 11 Feb 2025 | — |
| Staff Cultural Competency and Anti-Racism TrainingStaff training services | Open | 7 Feb 2025 | — |
| City of London Schools Catering ServicesSchool catering services | Open | 4 Feb 2025 | £10,500,000 |
| Pop-up Physio PilotPhysiotherapy services | Planned | 31 Jan 2025 | — |
| Major Habitat Restoration - Lots 3,4,5,6Tree-maintenance services | Open | 28 Jan 2025 | £630,000 |
| Climate Action Strategy Post - 2027 Development SupportEnergy-efficiency consultancy services | Open | 27 Jan 2025 | £300,000 |
| Housing Mediation and Conflict, Complaints Resolution ServiceHousing services | Open | 21 Jan 2025 | — |
| London Sexual Health Transformation Programme e-Healthcare ServicesCommunity health services | Planned | 16 Jan 2025 | — |
| Courier Services & Cargo BikesCourier services | Open | 16 Jan 2025 | £250,000 |
| Barbican Renewal Programme Infrastructure WorksBuilding completion work | Awarded / complete | 13 Jan 2025 | £125,000,000 |
| Libraries Public NetworkLibrary software package | Awarded / complete | 8 Jan 2025 | £450,000 |
| Values and Behaviours - Culture DevelopmentHuman resources management consultancy services | Open | 11 Dec 2024 | £500,000 |
| Soft Market Testing - Rough Sleeper NavigatorsHealth and social work services | Planned | 9 Dec 2024 | — |
| Soft Market Testing - Tower Bridge Visitor AttractionArchitectural design services | Planned | 3 Dec 2024 | — |
| Soft Market Testing - City Advice ServiceHealth and social work services | Planned | 29 Nov 2024 | — |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£718m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 18 award records on 12 procedures (18 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 15 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 3 of 143 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (9 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-FTS-117793